The Injured Athletes Club

173 | Swimmer Lyn Jutronich on Surviving a Shark Attack and Moving Forward

May 21, 2026

" It's not going to be a linear journey, which is something that's been hard for me to wrap my head around. I have bad days and I have good days … I've had to learn that sometimes it's two steps forward, one step back."   Lyn Jutronich has been swimming since she was a child in the Chicago suburbs, and as an adult living near San Diego, she fell in love with the open water. But in November 2022, she experienced every swimmer's worst nightmare when a juvenile great white shark attacked her.   ...

172 | Coach Carrie Answers a Question on Pain Management and Recovery

May 14, 2026

"I am nearly 8 months post-op after a femoral osteotomy to correct my knee. One of my biggest challenges is trying to figure out if my knee hurts because it 'should' as part of my recovery—or if it hurts because my body isn't used to this level of training after 7 months of not doing much. Can you help?"—Aaron   Sometimes, pain sends a clear signal to your brain that there's tissue damage or danger. But when you're recovering from an injury, those messages can get muddled, with an overactivat...

171 | Author and Athlete Dimity McDowell on the 27th Mile and Charting a New Path Forward

May 07, 2026

" You don't want to think about a friend dying or going through a divorce or anything like that—you kind of don't want to even put that energy in the world. Same thing with running. You don't want to think about what it looks like, but the reality is, most of us are going to have to think about that. Not everyone can stand on the podium at age 70."   Dimity McDowell was first on our show back in 2022, when she'd just written a series of articles for (the late, great) Women's Running magazin...